Passingthebeat
By Steven Braun (Northeastern University)
Data visualisation using MusicID to show The Beatles, Beyonce and others in the US, UK and Japan.
View the application developed with an API to the 'big data' sets within MusicID. It is an excellent example of the insights available to digital humanities.
What do they have in common? They are all artists who have achieved international success with their music.
Top music charts around the world are not always dominated by artists native to their respective countries. Often, top-ranking music singles jump from one chart to another as the music of artists from one country spreads to others. This animation gives us a way of visually quantifying these movements between three countries to show how music charts are, quite literally, passing the beat across the Atlantic and Pacific.
This is the code which digital humanitarians may find of interest.
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